<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hello All,<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">The first journal (& snack club) of the year is this <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline">​today</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline">​, </div>3:30pm MOB Theory Room.</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Please forward this to your new students who may not have signed up to the list yet.<br>Lars Martin will be presenting this week's papers and guiding the discussion.<br>As always, reading the paper is warmly encouraged but not required.<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.061101" target="_blank">https://journals.aps.org/prl/<wbr>abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.<wbr>119.061101</a></font><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div>Questions to consider for the paper:</div><div>1. What is this r-process problem they're trying to address?</div><div>2. Do we think the primordial black holes their theory requires actually exist?</div><div>3. If they do, is there anything that would prevent the process they describe from happening?</div><div>4. In light of the recent observation of a neutron star collision, is this explanation still "needed"?<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline">​_)​</div></div>
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